Glomangiomas, or multiple glomus tumors, occur in disseminated, localized, or congenital plaquelike forms. The first two cases of congenital plaquelike glomangioma were described in 1990. We report a 9-year-old girl with a congenital, violaceous, 75-cm2 indurated plaque of the left abdomen that showed the classic histologic findings of glomangioma. In our review of the world literature, we found 11 additional, well-documented cases of glomangioma present at birth. Ten of these patients had violaceous indurated plaques, and the other two had clusters of discrete nodules. The majority of lesions were painless and enlarged with body growth. Many patients developed satellite lesions at sites distant from the original glomangiomas later in life. Family history of glomangioma was positive in 4 of the 12 patients.

(C57BL/6 x DBA/2)F1 (B6D2F1) mice inoculated with parental DBA/2 (D2) splenocytes develop chronic stimulatory graft-versus-host reaction with many of the clinical manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus. This investigation tested the ability of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and ultraviolet A (UVA) light-treated D2 cells, primed to contain an expanded population of T cells specific for B6D2F1 major histocompatability complex antigens, to treat and/or prevent such systemic lupus erythematosus-like disease. 8-MOP/UVA-treated cells from B6D2F1-primed D2 donors were inoculated into B6D2F1 recipients weekly six to ten times, either before or after initiating graft-versus-host disease with normal D2 cells. A third group of B6D2F1 recipients were vaccinated weekly six times before disease initiation using 8-MOP/UVA-attenuated, B6D2F1-primed D2 cells that had been secondarily stimulated and expanded in vitro in the presence of irradiated B6D2F1 targets and interleukin-2. Control B6D2F1 mice were vaccinated with 8-MOP/UVA-treated D2 cells stimulated in vitro and/or in vivo with (C3H/HeJ x DBA/2)F1 cells. Only mice vaccinated with 8-MOP/UVA-attenuated D2-anti-B6D2F1 cells that were secondarily stimulated and expanded in vitro exhibited differences from controls when measured by the clinical parameters of ascites formation, and mean survival (p < 0.025). These groups also differed significantly in mean antinuclear antibody titer measured 14 weeks after disease initiation (p < 0.05). At 28 weeks, histologic evidence of systemic lupus erythematosus-like kidney disease was found only in the control group. These results indicate that photochemically attenuated D2-anti-B6D2F1 cells primed in vivo and secondarily stimulated and expanded in vitro are capable of vaccinating recipients against progression of graft-versus-host reaction-initiated systemic lupus erythematosus-like disease.

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The levator aponeurosis obtained during surgical correction of acquired ptosis elongates in response to nominal external forces. This biomechanical property is important because the length of the aponeurosis may vary intraoperatively if variable forces are applied to the eyelid. This property might be related to connective tissue architecture and, specifically, fibrosis. Surgeons performing levator aponeurosis resection should be mindful to maintain a consistent amount of force on the levator aponeurosis when performing the resection to maximize intercase consistency.

A 47-year-old woman presented with a painful mass below her left medial canthus. Examination revealed a 1-cm tender, smooth, pulseless, mobile mass inferior to the level of the anterior lacrimal crest. CT imaging was performed. Excision of the involved angular vein revealed a smooth, intralumenal lesion. Histopathologic examination demonstrated intravenous pyogenic granuloma (IVPG). There are approximately 30 reported cases of IVPG in the English literature, 2 of which arise in the periocular angular vein. The ultrasound and MRI characteristics of IVPG have been previously described. We describe the CT profile of this rare, benign tumor as a mildly heterogeneic, contrast-enhancing cylindrical lesion within, and conforming to the shape of, the angular vein. There is dilatation of the vein proximal to the lesion with marked narrowing distal to it secondary to obstruction of flow. On noncontrast imaging, the lesion is isodense with nasal mucosa and without calcifications.